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Kevin Manross

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“Radically OK” — Meteorologist / Software Eng. w/ CIRA/NOAA GSL; Formerly NSSL, NCAR; SvrWx & Photog Enthusiast. Boomer!

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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 3h
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a... Soooo apparently I don’t have a choice about this?!
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Trump Accounts will automatically be created for up to 60 million kids, Treasury says
Parents will no longer have to sign up for a Trump Account to get one for their child, with auto-enrollment beginning Oct. 1.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 11h
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man, I love OU, but this football team looks like it *might* belong in the AAC or newly constituted PAC-12. Granted, Georgia will make a lot of teams look bad, but when you essentially take 3 delays of game in the first quarter you have to question the overall prep and long term direction.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The use of Isaiah 6:8 is essentially trying to say God has commanded these leaders to send people to fight & die for this particular cause,” he explained. “...this serves to baptize their military plans in the will of the Christian God. And if the Christian God is commanding it, who can oppose it?”
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yep, this is a pretty cool new feature (ProbSevere layer & readout window) from the @radarscope.app update!
RadarScope ProbSevere table.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi @radarscope.app 👋 I’m curious about the ProbSevere layer for Tier 2. I have it turned on & have all the categories turned on but not seeing anything in the display. Granted there’s not much out there but I’m looking at a detection N of Roswell, NM that is 5% SVR. What is the threshold for “Low”?
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m so giddy about this @radarscope.app !! Especially when I travel I can load this in my rental and be more easily aware of weather in unfamiliar surroundings.
RadarScope app operating in CarPlay in my Jeep
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ned Flanders Excited
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You know, it wasn’t the first 82 mailers that convinced me but that 83rd mailer finally made me switch my vote for CO-8 /s
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@cira-csu.bsky.social too!! 🎉
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Senate Commerce Dems @commerce.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
The Cooperative Institute at UW has driven breakthroughs in weather forecasting & fisheries management for the entire country. @cantwell.senate.gov's bipart bill codifies NOAA’s 17 Cooperative Institutes into law, ensuring their important work will continue. www.commerce.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
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Cantwell, Wicker, Hickenlooper & Hyde-Smith Introduce Bill to Codify NOAA’s Cooperative Institutes - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), a senior member of the Commerce Committee, John Hickenlo...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Aspire to live in such a way that reporters write stories on why people don’t like you. 🙃 baptistnews.com/article/what...
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What’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?
Unfortunately, not everyone in evangelicalism receives Du Mez’s scholarship with such openness, says Rick Pidcock.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nifty little virga-bow on my way out of the building out the stairwell or the Skaggs building in Boulder looking east. #cowx #atmosphericoptics
Virga-bow through a stairwell window facing east from Boulder
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The skeet’s from this game are priceless tonight. But this one has had me laughing for a solid five minutes now. 🤣
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I definitely get Ron’s point. A town hall meeting? Sorry, I live in CO-8. Haven’t heard of such a thing the past two years.
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Man's 'Yeah Sure' Sarcastic Expression
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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 03/09/2026
Another job opportunity with @cira-csu.bsky.social to work collaboratively with GSL is now available! This one’s for a model developer, focusing on code development, implementation, management, and optimization. For more details: csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/fortcollins_...
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DJ Khaled: Another One
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Text products will still be available to the public as a part of the CAP version. The aim is to replace VTEC which is an older, limiting technology that inhibits geographic updating of watches, warnings and advisories. The move to CAP will have its bumps, but will allow for better services.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Probably should be fair and report when the opposite happens…
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As a meteorologist I (figuratively) roll my eyes whenever I hear someone say “storms always split around my house/town” Also me:
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Well that didn’t take long. After pushing for America as a Christian Nation, we getting a picture of what flavor. Can’t wait to see the next steps. baptistnews.com/article/mohl...
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Mohler: US must be Protestant nation with many evangelical babies
Survival of the USA hinges on establishing a Protestant nation and encouraging evangelicals to marry and have lots of babies, says Al Mohler,
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Looking for a cloud developer to work with my group at @cira-csu.bsky.social at the NOAA Fire Weather Testbed in Boulder, CO. Come help us advance concepts and tools to better understand fire weather! csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/fortcollins_...
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26-117: Fire Weather Testbed Cloud Developer
Job Description Description of Unit: The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University (CSU) seeks to fill a full-time Cloud Developer position designed to c...
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
DAGNABBIT!! Seeing Weezer that night. But if I wasn’t I’d be there.
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Karen “Will not Toady” Robertson @karenrobz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Puts some context onto Jared Polis's chicanery re releasing Tina Peters, but he's still an abject coward and Coloradans are PISSED. Please amplify this GIFTED article. I am but a tiny person on here. www.denverpost.com/2026/08/14/c...
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‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor
A Trump assistant asked officials from five agencies to join a call “prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And the 2026 Award for Worst 'Bothsides' in Religion goes to... "Both Senate candidates have been criticized for falling short of being an authentic or true Christian-Talarico for his progressive Christian message, and Paxton for 2 alleged extramarital affairs." religionnews.com/2026/08/13/p...
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Paxton, Talarico tap contrary versions of God and Christianity in appeal to Texas voters
AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — In a state where two-thirds of the adult population identifies as Christian and 45% say religion is 'very important' in their life, the candidates are asking voters to choose bet...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Rep Gabe Evans (R-CO) avoids in-person town halls and media outlets where he'll face direct questions. Our @marshallglasses.bsky.social caught up with Evans to ask how many Coloradans will soon lose SNAP food benefits. Evans repeatedly dodged the question.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/08/2026
Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️
Most people don't dream of being fancy-rich.
I dream of being rich enough to say, "Treat's on me," without thinking twice. Rich enough to have a home that feels like a hug, a fridge stocked like a five-year-old with adult money, and a tray of chocolates waiting for someone to grab. Rich enough to quietly help a friend before they even have to ask. To send a care package when someone's too tired to reach out. To buy all the pencils from a kid on the street so they can go home early. For me, the real money dream isn't about luxury - it's about having enough to give, enough to comfort, enough to turn ordinary moments into something extraordinary.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Great explainer article and one I e been looking for. I still struggle with going along with the AI boom. I can definitely see the benefits of coding assistants in my own work, but really wrestle with the impacts.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Colleague at GSL before he retired instilled in me the “Jurassic Park” philosophy (Life/Forecasters will find a way!) so give them the tools and include them in the design phase as much as possible.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
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Stephanie W. ⚡️ @stephanieway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is absolutely disgusting.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” -Gandalf Reading LoTR these days hits way harder
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nifty view of the storm heading down US36 as I leave work. #cowx
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nice to see you monsoon! You’re more than welcome to stay as long as you like. #cowx #timelapse #clouds
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So that happened today. Checked the neighboring stations and it falls in line. My PWS is only 5 years old so this all time high has some caveats. Still, that’s not what I had in mind when I moved here.
Home weather station set a new all time record (history is only 5 years) high of 104.2F
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
China eats lightning for breakfast...
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Russ Vought and crew are just like Hans Gruber: trying to act sophisticated when in reality they’re just a bunch of petty thieves stealing our future. Fighting back is working; let’s keep it up.
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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Cool news from CDOT: They're launching weather balloons (with CSU grad students) to collect added data for tactical insight (road treatments, equipment deployment, etc.) Data will get shared with NWS as well. Presumably, this'll help with years-long balloon launch holes. mailchi.mp/state/cdot-a...
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CDOT and CSU launch weather balloon to strengthen year-round road operations
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This month is the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and it reminds me that the ADA could not be passed today. It probably couldn’t get a vote in committee today.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
im_happy_for_you.gif cc: @jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A really nice example of “enshittification” produced by AI. Received an email stating my insurance coverage was going to be automatically increased because they “identified” a new attached deck (if I take no action). We installed a dirt/sand pad w/ railroad ties for play. Wasting 30+ mins of my day.
Email saying that my property insurance will be adjusted (increased) because they “identified” and attached deck. We installed a dirt/concrete pad enclosed by railroad ties for a play area and they want to increase my coverage by nearly $5k. I suspect this is another wonderful application of AI applied to satellite surveillance of my house. So now I need to waste 30+ minutes of my day tracking down and refuting a bogus claim and if I don’t, they just get away with the increase. A really nice example of “enshittification” produced by AI.
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